Establishment and set-up

• What structure is best for your project?

• NZ Screen Production Grant criteria and entity choice
• Co-production treaties/agreements

• NZ taxes – income tax, withholding taxes, GST, Approved Issuer Levy, individual taxes

• Financing arrangements – NZ Government, private equity, bank
• The most effective funding structure for your NZ film production project

• Financial reporting implications and options

• Company assistance – company incorporation and registrations, bank account set-up, company secretarial compliance

• Set-up agreements and documentation advice best suited to your project – interparty/production funding agreement, NZSPG loan agreement, cast & crew assignments, security deeds, banking deeds
• Cashflow forecasts for funding bodies/NZSPG lender

 

New Zealand Screen Production Grant

• Advising on NZSPG criteria and requirements, including the Additional Grant

• Opinions on film grant entitlement and likely (budgeted costs) quantum of grant

• All registrations/waiver applications, preparation, project-managing processes

• Grant application completion (including provisional applications, if appropriate) and project-management, including liaising with your grant auditor and the NZ Film Commission’s consultants, to approval and receipt

 

Financial accounting

• Financial accounting obligations

• Processing and payment of payroll and supplier invoices

• Post-production accounting

• Financial statements preparation

 

New Zealand taxation planning and obligations

• Summary NZ tax outline for production companies and other entities

• Income tax & GST & withholding taxes
• Understanding multi-year tax accounting impacts

• All local taxation compliance matters, tax payments, tax returns and filings

• GST return preparation & reconciliation, filings and optimal cash flows

• All liaison with NZ Inland Revenue managing payments, filings, assessments, tax accounts, reconciliations

 

Managing contracts with cast and crew

• Understanding the individual and loan-out NZ tax issues
• Engagement basis as contractors or employees
• Production requirements and cast and crew taxation parameters
• Overseas cast and crew NZ tax obligations
• Assignment arrangements and split contracts
• Engagement of cast and crew that supports your film grant entitlement